Is The Game Over for Black Television?

Protesters be damned, the CW is still trashing The Game and Everybody Hates Chris. Brace yourselves for a Tyler Perry existence.

By: Erin Evans | Posted: June 3, 2008 at 6:24 AM

Fans of The Game have been all over the Internet for the past several months, trying to save the canceled CW show with online petitions, Tweets, Facebook-status dedications and e-mail chains lamenting the show’s unceremonious demise. In an effort to save the show, the cast recorded a YouTube video, Change the Game Campaign, to get fans to blow up the message boards on CWTV.com.

To capitalize on the uproar, BET last week aired an eight-hour The Game marathon. I took the bait and ended up having a two-hour Tweetfest with friends, debating our favorite episodes and characters.

But the save The Game campaign isn’t just about missing its snappy one-liners. The recent cancellation of The Game and the also popular Everybody Hates Chris has drastically reduced the number of black faces on network television. It’s as if network producers have decided that only Tyler Perry’s brand of pandering, lowest-common-denominator blackness is fit for prime time.

my response to this 2008 article …

it’s still relavant … Afro-American faces are far and few on (mainsteam tv) and as the new 2009 season starts we can look forward to Hawthorne with Jada P smith (cable) … hopefully more shows will be included … we have to commend Tyler P for keeping Black actors employed… in 2008, while most Black Shows were being dropped he was going strong … to be continued …

we need to write letters to get more Afro-Americans on Mainstream tv …

maybe the whole story is not out there but it seems like her brother and his wife wanted a piece of the growing pie …

money does strange things to people ….

there is reality tv and then there is just plain’ole reality …

tv put an angle on their lives that we all wanted to tune into(i did) i have one and wanted to know how she/hubby cope … but … the parents personal lives(the lets get real stuff) should be kept out of it … the kids are all school age, all are probably dealing with the media everyday … clearly including family, any possible break-ups and all kinds of misbehavior should be considered before accepting a reality tv show, something the Gosselins have had to learn

I personally don’t care about the extra-marital affairs…however, i do care about the impact the MEDIA has had on the kids and their lives … actually the MEDIA is to blame … they exploit families … j/k+8 were all okay until the uglier side was available to dig into

crossing the line is something the Media has decided not to think about … why not choose to let them work on that outside of the camera lens